Bee Kanofsky

Bee Kanofsky is a Jewish, Transfeminine, and Queer literary artist. She makes work that expresses her lifelong searching for community, connection, and an understanding of the past. She has been a multi-award nominated and winning experimental poet, librettist, filmmaker, and playwright. She has had her plays presented at the O’Neill Theatre Center in Connecticut for two consecutive years, the TADA! Theatre in New York City for her play Being Seen, the Randall Theatre in Philadelphia for her play Painted Peppers, and now the Drake Theatre in Philadelphia for Fields of Flowers. 

She has also collaborated on musical theatre songs for her friend’s musical animated series, Der Schwarzwald in addition to a musical adaptation of Painted Peppers, a Harriet Tubman musical, among other musical projects. 

She has also been featured in multiple collections of poetry including RUCKUS magazine, Echoes Down the Stairwell, and The Performer Charter Arts newspaper, international and local film festivals, musical-writing competitions for the National American Musical Theatre Alliance, and as her class’s graduation speaker for 2025. When she’s not writing she loves to take walks with her dad and collects walking sticks along the way. Bee lives with her family and her two cats Horchata and Mochi. 

She graduated Lehigh Valley Charter Arts this school year and she is going to attend Bard College in the fall.